Nuclear
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Wilhelm’s Way: The Inspiring Story of the Iowa Chemist Who Saved the Manhattan Project
$26.95 Add to cartWinner of the Minnesota Book Award
Recipient of the Excellence in Iowa History Award
The untold story of the humble man whose scientific innovation helped end World War II
In February 19
- Author: Waldof, Teresa Wilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985439601
- Language: English
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Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartQuantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our unders… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #69
- Author: Polkinghorne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802526
- Language: English
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Quantum Entanglement
$16.95 Add to cartAn exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.
Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common s
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Brody, Jed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 18, 2020
- ISBN10: 026253844X
- Language: English
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The Uranium Club: Unearthing the Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program
$30.00 Add to cart“Much as Marcel Proust spun out a lifetime of memories from the taste of a madeleine, The Uranium Club spins out the history of Nazi Germany’s failed World War II atomic-bomb project by tracing the wh… [more below]
- Author: Hiebert, Miriam E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1641608625
- Language: English
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Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
$18.95 Add to cart“A new, exciting approach to the literature about this momentous era.”–The Wall Street Journal
There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless … [more below]- Author: Hürter, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1891011170
- Language: English
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Qed: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
$19.95 Add to cartFeynman’s bestselling introduction to the mind-blowing physics of QED–presented with humor, not mathematics
Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Rich- Series: Princeton Science Library #33
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 26, 2014
- ISBN10: 0691164096
- Language: English
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Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
$30.00 Add to cartFor fans of Oppenheimer, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape.
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could… [more below]- Author: Scoles, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 6, 2024
- ISBN10: 1645030059
- Language: English
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The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Updated with a New Introduction by Richard Rhodes
$17.95 Read moreMore than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and human destruction. The young scientists at L… [more below]
- Author: Serber, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0520344170
- Language: English
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
$50.00 Add to cartTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD(R)-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER – “A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”–Christopher Nolan
#1 NEW YORK TIME- Author: Bird, Kai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0375412026
- Language: English
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Pri… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1451677618
- Language: English
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Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
$19.00 Read moreTrinity, the debut graphic book by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb in World War Two–with a focus on the brillian
- Author: Fetter-Vorm, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 0809093553
- Language: English
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American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer
$25.00 Add to cartTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD(R)-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER – “A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”–Christopher Nolan
#1 NEW YORK TIME- Author: Bird, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0375726268
- Language: English
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times Best Book of the Year
From journal
A Time Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner- Author: Higginbotham, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 1501134639
- Language: English
